15 Facts About Charles Wordsworth

Charles Wordsworth was Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane in Scotland.

Charles Wordsworth was a classical scholar, and taught at public schools in England and Scotland.

Charles Wordsworth was a rower, cricketer, and athlete and he instigated both the University cricket match in 1826 and the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race in 1829.

Charles Wordsworth was educated at Harrow where his friends included Charles Merivale and Richard Chenevix Trench.

Charles Wordsworth was in the Harrow cricket eleven for the first regular matches with Eton and Winchester, Charles Wordsworth then went to Christ Church, Oxford where he won the Chancellor's Latin verse at Oxford in 1827, and the Latin essay in 1831, and took a first-class in classics.

Charles Wordsworth played cricket in the Varsity match in 1829 and rowed in the winning Oxford crew in the Boat Race.

In 1869 Charles Wordsworth responded to John Morgan, who was investigating the health effects of rowing.

From 1830 to 1833 Charles Wordsworth was teaching and had as pupils a number of men, including William Gladstone and Cardinal Manning.

Charles Wordsworth had previously taken holy orders, though he only became priest in 1840, and he had a strong religious influence with the boys.

In 1852 Charles Wordsworth was elected Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, and was consecrated in Aberdeen early next year.

Charles Wordsworth was a strong supporter of the establishment, but conciliatory towards the Free churches, and this brought him into a good deal of controversy.

Charles Wordsworth was a voluminous writer, and was one of the company of revisers of the New Testament, among whom he displayed a conservative tendency.

In continuing his letter to Morgan, Charles Wordsworth described his activities in 1869.

Charles Wordsworth died in St Andrews and is buried in the Eastern Cemetery against the north wall.

Charles Wordsworth was the older brother of Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln.